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Events 2007 Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Document, Document File		2007	Events 2007 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-3846 Type: Document, Document File Date: 2007 Description: Somesville and Its Secrets (walking tour of historic homes, buildings, Brookside Cemetery; dams and mills), Aug. 11 Fishing and the Future of Island Communities, with Ted Ames, Mar. 25 "Us and Them": Summer People and the Mainers Who Worked for Them, April 29 with Pamela Dean, Archivist, U of Maine, April 29, Somesville Firehouse Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G. Blaine, a conversation with Neil Rolde, May 23. Fire of ;47, June 24 Movie Nights with Bill Baker, Hollywood inthe 1930s, Aug. 17: End of the Silent Era, Top Hat with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Footage from Fire of 1947, Bar Harbor Express and Hancock Ferries, Easy Street with Charlie Chaplin, June 23, with Bill Baker Field Trip to Great Duck Island with Peter Blanchard, Agu. 21 Historic Homes Tour- August Gardens of Kykuit, slide-lecture by Ann Rockefeller Roberts and Mary Louise Pierson, in honor of Louisa Kennedy, August 23 Exploring MDI's Past, Acadia Senior College Class, Fall 2007: Gilded Age, Island Industries, Landscapes and Gardens, Places that Aren't, Biological Research on MDI, Acadia National Park Discover Hall Quarry, Sept. 29 Three Historic Homes: Seal Harbor (Craigstone), Pretty Marsh, Somesville, Oct. 5. [show more]
Events 2008 Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Document, Document File		2008	Events 2008 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-3845 Type: Document, Document File Date: 2008 Description: Two Island Gardens: Asticou Azalea and Thuya, May 18, 2008. Women in the Fishing Industry (with SW Harbor Library), Mar. 27, 2008: Kristina Stanley, Stephanie Alley, Val Peacock, Linda Musson, Peg Morse, Holly Smallidge, Holly Masterson, Juanita Stanley, Kim Young, Wilhelmina Brouwer, Genealogy Workshop with Thomas Vining, Ralph Stanley, Elaine Fernald, Sheldon Goldthwait, Patti Leland-Hanson, Patricia Ray. Panel and workshop. June 29, 2008 Cemetery Walk, Forest Hill Cemetery, Northeast Harabor, July 20, 2008. Inside Seal Harbor, July 24, 2008: Harbor Club, Holy Family Church, "Wayside," Library, Seal Harbor Yacht Club, "Craig Knowe," with Anne Funderburk. Mount Desert Rocks with Geologist Bill Clark, July 27, 2008. (Geology) Petite Plaisance, July 29, 2008. (Marguerite Yourcenar) Gott's Island, Aug. 16, 23. Home of Ruth Moore. God's Many Corners, the Churches of MDI, Aug. 22, 2008. Diving for Urchins, Scallops &Other Treasures with 'Diver Ed." Aug. 17, 2008 Louisa VAughan Conrad Garden Dedication, Aug. 20, 2008, Somesville Museum Field Trip to Great Duck Island with Peter Blanchard, Aug. 21, 2008 [show more]
Events 2009 Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Document, Document File		2009	Events 2009 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-3844 Type: Document, Document File Date: 2009 Description: Women in Conversation, Mar. 26, 2009: Turning Dreams into Practical Conservation Projects. Hoops Around the Island, April 16, 2009, Basketball on MDI with Jack Gilley, Ray (Razor) Gray, Dennis Damon, Steve Parady, Burt Barker, Melissa Gott; Bill Baker, moderator. School Consolidation, One of MDI's Great Controversies, April 28, 2009 Ledgelawn Cemetery, with Tom Vining, June 7, 2009. Bastille Day, Among Fabulous Antique Cars, with Seal Cove Auto Museum, July 14, 2009. Inside Seal Harbor: Guided Tours of Cottages, Clubs & Church, July 20 and Aug. 7, 2009: St. Judes's, Harbor Club, Long Pond, "Wayside," library, "Sea Bench," Yacht Club. Boat Building Industry: Can it Survive? July 22, 2009. With panelists Ralph Stanley, Phil Bennett (Hinckley), Jock Williams, Lee Wilbur, Cuyler Morris and Alan Sprague, co-host of Boat Talk on WERU Radio. Boat Builders Tour: 8 Boat Yards, Aug. 14, 2009 Charles A. Townsend's Mount Desert: Early 20th Century Real-Photo Postcards of the Island, Sept. 15, 2009. Talk by Earle G. Shettleworth. Annual Meeting: Dr. David Hackett Fischer, "Islanders in Time: Family, Friends and Neighbors on MDI--How Our Associations Have Changed, Aug. 23, 2009. Acadia's Carriage Roads and Bridges, July 27, 2009, with Paul Richardson [show more]
Register and notes from visitors Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Document, List, Guestbook		2000	Register and notes from visitors Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-3823 Type: Document, List, Guestbook Date: 2000 Description: Large bound green volume with notes from various people about their visit; only few pages written in.
Canneries of MDI Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Document, Document File		2006	Canneries of MDI Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-3762 Type: Document, Document File Date: 2006 Description: Includes notice of oral history program on Canning Industry on Mount Desert, information about a slide lecture and round table discussion about Women in the Canning Industry. Photographs of exterior and interior of (Stinson?) Canning factory, Prospect Harbor, Underwood's Sardine Factory, McKinley ME. Photocopies of Masts and Masters, a brief history of Sardine Carriers and Boatmen by John D. Gilman; Sardine History by John D. Toft. Biographical info. about Mary Louise Mitchell by her granddaughter Carol Reed Walsh. Mrs. Mitchell worked in the sardine factory. Obituary of Rachel Gott Francis, fish packer, by Nan Lincoln. List of packers, managers, and other employees at Underwood. [show more]
Marathon Advertising Card Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Document, Advertising, Advertising Card		2008	Marathon Advertising Card Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-3456 Type: Document, Advertising, Advertising Card Date: 2008 Description: 4x9 card to advertise marathon. Thank you to 2012 contributors
Caretakers and Cooks: A panel discussion, April, 2003 Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Publication, Literary, Reminiscence		2003	Caretakers and Cooks: A panel discussion, April, 2003 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2927 Type: Publication, Literary, Reminiscence Date: 2003 Description: Caretakers and Cooks 2 discs. April 2003 This is an audio recording of a speech or panel discussion probably held at the Southwest Harbor Library or the MDI Historical Society. Ralph Stanley is involved in some way. This recording is very faint.
Obituaries Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Document, Announcement, Obituary		2000	Obituaries Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2717 Type: Document, Announcement, Obituary Date: 2000 Description: Obituaries of B. J. Morrison (Betty Jane), Chester E. Clement, Nelson Collins Leland, Louine Lunt Peck, Lawrence C. Hadley, Harold W. Walls, Eleanor Hallowell Lippincott, Ann Harbourt Raup, Marion A. Sargent, Adra E. Tarbell, first secretary of Acadia National Park, Jack Harkins, John Heliker, Mary Diane Carroll, Cary Chaplin, Anna Flagg Johnston Wellington, Duard E. Garver, Julie Crofoot, Joan Staats Anna Scott Kennedy, Julia B. Smith, Robert E. Blum, Harry Spurling, John Heliker Evan Bryan White, Charlton Yarnall, Grace Tracy Reed Rachel Carroll Phalen, Thomas H. Maren, T. Dennie Pratt Verna Hodgdon, Charles Eliot Pierce [show more]
Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, volume IX 2008 Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Publication, Periodical		2008	Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, volume IX 2008 Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2532 Type: Publication, Periodical Date: 2008 Description: Chebacco, volume IX 2008 Investing in Acadia: The Invisible Hand of John Stewart Kennedy by William J. Baker Centre? Center? What and When Was That? by Raymond E. Robbins, Jr. Fraternal Organizations on Mount Desert Island by William J. Skocpol Northeast Harbor Delivered: Provisioning the Carriage Trade by Meredith Hutchins Island Poems, Prose & Drawings by Candice Stover, Betsy Alexander, Les Menard, Edward W. Evans Local Color: A Winter Industries Family: the Smallidges of Northeast Harbor by Charlotte Singleton Memories of the Fire of '47 by Robert Patterson, Sr.,, Jack Russell [show more]
Dupont's Parfum glass bottle with stopper Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Dupont's Parfum glass bottle with stopper Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2393 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This transparent glass bottle is 4 inches tall and has a circumference of 5 inches. Without the stopper, the bottle is 3 and a half inches tall. The bottle has Dupont's Parfum imprinted on it.
Bayer Company Glass Bottle without a top Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Bayer Company Glass Bottle without a top Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2392 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This clear glass bottle has the letters The Bayer Company, Inc written vertically on the sides. It is 2 and three quarters high and has a circumference of 4 and a quarter inches. The bottle is missing a top and has some dark stains on one side.
Three In One Oil Company Glass Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Three In One Oil Company Glass Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2391 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This old glass bottle is 3 and three quarters high. There is no top. The circumference is about 5 inches. The neck is curved but the rest of the bottle is rectangular in shape. The base is 1 and a half inches by three quarters of an inch. It is transparent but the glass has a light green tint. Going up on one side is "3 -in- one oil co." and "Three In One" on the other side.
Old Brown Glass Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Old Brown Glass Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2389 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This brown bottle has part of a label on it. The remaining letters in the title of the label are: YDE MERCK . Under this appears RMALDEHYDE). In the upper right hand corner of the label is written: S-.3643. The directions on the label instruct the user on how to handle formaldehyde. The shape of the bottle is round.
Old Glass Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Old Glass Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2390 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This small glass bottle has a light green hue with a frosted look. It is translucent. The top is missing. It is 4 inches high and 3 inches round. It doesn't stand up straight by itself.
Old Light Green Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Old Light Green Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2388 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This light green bottle (soft mint color) is 8 inches high with a circumference of almost 8 inches. The height of the neck is about 2 inches. At the center of the base is a stamped mark which looks like a zero in a square. The bottle has 12 faces, each one measuring about 11/16s. There are several scratch marks. There is no top present.
Old Clear Square Bottle with a Stopper Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Old Clear Square Bottle with a Stopper Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2387 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This bottle has part of a label. You can read the words "Olive", "C.M.Brown & Co.", "Hammond St.", "Pharmicists", and "Bangor, Maine". The bottle is 9 and 3/4 high. It measures about 12 inches around the middle of the bottle. There is a cork top present. The neck is 1 and 3/4 inches tall. There are four 2and 1/2 by 7 and 1/2 inch "arch ways" embossed on the faces of the bottle. There is a residue of dirt on the inside of the bottom and on one side. The glass is somewhat cloudy. [show more]
Small Brown Bottle with a Metal Lid Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Small Brown Bottle with a Metal Lid Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2385 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This rectangular-shaped glass bottle3 inches high and 4 and 1/2 inches around. It has a metal top which has several black scratch marks in its silver color. The base has numbers which appear to be 2138 with a 7 and 3 underneath separated by an imprinted image.
Small Amber-Colored Square Glass Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Small Amber-Colored Square Glass Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2386 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This small old glass bottle is amber-colored. There is no top present. It has 4 faces, each measuring 10/16s of an inch by 1 and 3/4 inches. On one side is written what looks like BOERCKE & TAFEL NEW YORK.
Ole Brown Square-shape Bottle with a Cork Stopper Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Ole Brown Square-shape Bottle with a Cork Stopper Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2384 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This brown bottle measures almost 4 inches with its cork stopper in place. There is a label which has "E.M. Tower, Ogunquit, Maine, Telephone Connections" written on it. There are lines below the heading which are earmarked for a No., Date, and Directions. Each face measure 1 inch by 2 and 1/4 inches. The neck is 3/4 of an inch.
Old Clear Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Old Clear Bottle Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2383 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This small clear glass bottle measures 2 and 1/4 inches high and 2 inches around. There is no stopper. There is a label but the lettering is hard to decipher. I can make out: ORIENTA ANACARDIUM. The glass appears cloudy and dirty.
MDI Historical Society Garden Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Image, Photograph	Kathy Van Gorder	2005	MDI Historical Society Garden Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2300 Type: Image, Photograph Creator: Kathy Van Gorder Date: 2005 Description: Photographs and negatives of the instillation of the Somesville Bridge
Old Glass Bottle with a Cork Stopper Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle		07/15/2008	Old Glass Bottle with a Cork Stopper Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-2281 Type: Object, Containers, Vessel, Bottle Date: 07/15/2008 Description: This is a small bottle which is 2 and 3/4 inch high and 2 and 1/4 inches around. The cork stopper is in place. There is a label which has StaphisAGria on it. There is a thin cord wrapped around the top of this round bottle.
The Mirror of Maine Mount Desert Island Historical Society	Publication, Book	Sprague, Laura Fecych, ed.	2000	The Mirror of Maine Mount Desert Island Historical Society Identifier: mdihs-1547 Type: Publication, Book Creator: Sprague, Laura Fecych, ed. Publisher: Univ. of Maine Press and Baxter Society Date: 2000 Description: This is an annotated and illustrated bibliography of 100 books "that reveal the history of the state and the life of its people."

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